Practise Bits

1. Which state set a new record for the highest voter turnout with 93 percent polling in Assembly elections conducted recently?
    1) Meghalaya     2) Manipur          
    3) Karnataka     4) Gujarat    
    5) Tripura
2. Nigeria won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations football championship in South Africa recently. In the final Nigeria defeated?
    1) Burkina Faso     2) Mali            
    3) Ghana     4) Egypt    
    5) South Africa
3. The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship will be played in?
    1) Botswana     2) Cameroon
    3) Zambia     4) Morocco
    5) Zimbabwe
4. The Louis Philippe Cup is associated with?
    1) Squash     2) Golf
    3) Chess     4) Polo
    5) Baseball
5. Which of the following is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)?
    1) Prithvi     2) INS Chakra
    3) K-5         4) INS Arihant
    5) None of these
6. The Union Government has constituted an expert committee to improve the functioning of the public service broadcaster Prasar Bharati. Who is the Chairman of this seven-member committee?
    1) Sam Pitroda     2) Jawhar Sircar
    3) M.P.Gupta    4) B.K. Gairola
    5) Shekhar Kapur
7. India discussed progress in negotiations over the Jaitapur nuclear power project and the billion deal for 126 Rafale Fighter jets with which of the following counties recently?
    1) UK         2) France
    3) Japan     4) Spain
    5) Germany
8. Luna-Glob is planned to be launched in 2015. Luna-Glob is the name of a Moonexploration program by?
    1) China     2) Japan
    3) Russia     4) USA    
    5) India
9. Which Indian scientist has been conferred with China's top science award for his contributions in boosting Sino-India scientific cooperation?
    1) V.K. Saraswat     2) Ashoke Sen
    3) B. N. Suresh    4) C.N.R.Rao
    5) None of these
10. Which is the world's fourth largest steel maker for the third consecutive year?
    1) China     2) Japan
    3) USA     4) India
    5) None of these
11. The government granted Maharatna status to which of the following public sector enterprises in 2013?
    1) BSNL & MTNL
    2) BSNL & BHEL
    3) HPCL & BPCL
    4) HPCL & GAIL
    5) GAIL & BHEL
12.A Maharatna company can take investment decision of up to what amount without going to the government?
    1) Rs 1,000crore  
    2) Rs 2,000crore
    3) Rs 3,000crore
    4) Rs 5,000crore
    5) Rs 10,000crore
13.The Rashtriya Bal Swaasthya Karyakram of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was launched recently in Palghar in?
    1) Rajasthan     2) Maharashtra
    3) Karnataka    4) Haryana
    5) Himachal Pradesh
14. How many times did Australia win the women's world cup cricket?
    1) 3      2) 4      3) 5     4) 6     5) 7
15. What is TIEA?
    1) Total Information Exchange  
          Agreement
    2) Tax Information Employment
          Agreement
    3) Tax Investment Exchange Agreement 4) Tax Information Exchange
          Agreement
    5) None of these
16. India has finalized a Rs 3,000 crore deal for supplying 99 jet engines to be used in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' with?
    1) USA     2) France
    3) UK         4) Russia  
    5) Japan
17. India, along with five other tea producing countries, has formed the international Tea Producers Forum (ITPF). ITPF is headquartered in?
    1) New Delhi     2) Nairobi
    3) Colombo     4) Jakarta
    5) Kigali

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1. 5     2. 1     3. 4     3. 2     5. 3  
6. 1     7. 2     8. 3     9. 4     10. 4    
11. 5   12.4     13. 2    14. 4     15. 4    
16. 1   17.3